Fibrous composition and process of making the same.



G. A. HENDERSON.

FIBROUS COMPOSITION AND PROCESS OF MAKING THE SAME.

APPLICATION FILED APR.8, 1911.

Patented 001]. 8, 1912.

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GEORGE A. HENDERSON, 0F CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA.

IEIBROUS COMPOSITION AND PROCESS OF MAKING THE SAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 8, 1912.

Application filed April 8, 1911. Serial No. 619,888.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1,.Gnonon A. HENDER- SON, a resident of Charleston, in the county of Kanawha and State of West Virginia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fibrous Compositions and Processes of Making the Same, of which the followingsectional view thereof. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a hollow building block, and Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a column.

My invention relates to a composition and the process of making the same, which composition can be used for making various articles such as pulp tics, mine timbers, arches, building blocks, columns and other structures.

The objectof my invention is to produce a composition for such purposes from chipped material, which will in strength and durability be superior to articles made from timber.

The precise nature of my inventionwill be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, which will now be described, it being pren'iised, however, that various changes may be made in the details of construction of the apparatus by which the process is carried out, without departing from the spiritand scope of my invention, as defined in the appended claims. A In the drawings, the numeral 2 designates a mill or chopping device for grinding or chopping billets of wood into particles or chips of the desired size, and which is driven by means of a pulley 3 on a shaft 4.

5 designates a spout leading from the mill through which the chips pass from the mill.

In the drawings I have shown the mill as adjacent to a tank or vat 6 into which the chips are delivered. The tank or vat is provided with a steam pipe 7 through which steam is admitted for heating the material within the vat to extract the juices and soft pulpy matter from the chips, as hereinafter described.

9 designates a kiln or drying oven which 18 provided with a plurality of endless conveyer's 10, 11 and 12, which pass around suitable drums 13.

1 1 is a combustion chamber in the lower portion of the kiln or oven having a gas supply pipe 15 which is provided with a plura ity of burners 16, which are arranged to heat the oven, the products of combustion passing upwardly through flues 17 and thence out through a stack 18. The fiues 17 lie between the endless conveyers and are connected attheir ends to each other in such a manner that the products of combustion will have a serial pass from the chamber 14 to the stack 18.

19 is a hopper on the top of the oven, the lower end of which is a feeding device 20 for feeding the material from the hopper to the belt 10. The endless conveyer 12 passes out through an opening 21 in one end of the oven and the dried material is dropped into a hopper 22. The lower portion of this hopper 22 is provided with outlets 23 and 24:, and is also provided with a gate 25. which can be moved so that the material can be fed into the outlet 23 or to the outlet 24, the lower ends of which are provided with gates 23 and 24, respectively. Placed immediately below each of these outlets 23 and 24 are the mixers 2G and 27, respectively, which are provided with agitators 26 and 27, respectively, and

, which are arranged to be driven by their respective pulleys 26 and 27".

Pulverized material from the mill 2 is delivered to the vat 6, to which is added the proper amount of water and the mixture is then heated by means of the steam pipe 7 in order to abstract all of the sap and essence, and after the material has been boiled a predetermined length of time, the liquid can be drawn off and the moist chips are then shoveled into the hopper 19 from which they are delivered by means of the feeding device 20 to the endless conveyer The chips are moved along with the endless conveyer l0 and are dropped to the conveyor 11 from whence they are dropped to the conveyor 12. The length and speed of these various conveyors are such that the material will be thoroughly dried by the time it passes out. through the opening 21 and is delivered to the hopper 22. The material is first fed from the hopper 22 through the chute 23 into the mixer 25 into which is placed the proper proportion of any well known preservative, which is thoroughly mixed with the chips, so that the open pores thereof are impregnated therewith. The material is then removed from the mixer Q'Sand is again passed through the oven or kiln 9, and after passes through the oven the second time, it is passed from the hopper 22 to the mixer 26 into which is a heavy bituminous binder and is thoroughly mixed with the chips to completely coat the same. After the chips and binder have been thoroughly mixed, the mixture is removed from the mixer and is molded into blocks or columns, as shown in Figs. 3 to 6, or-can be placed on the street and pressed by means of rollers in manner similar to sheet asphalt. If desired, the material just removed from-the mixer can be run-through a second kiln or oven similar to the kiln 9, and after it is thoroughly dried it can then he delivered to a mixer similar to the mixer 26, instead of passing it through the same kiln twice.

The advantages my invention result from the method or" manufacturing a composition from chips or fiber from which articles of various types can be made which will be superior to articles made from timber By the term Wood particles, as used in the claims, I intend to distinguish from WOOd pulp, such as is used in paper manu facture.

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l, A new composition of matter, comprising vood particles from which merely the juice, sap and water nave been extracted, said particles being i'npregnated and coated With a preservative nd united by small quantity of heavy hi the proportion of hinder being merely large enough coat the particles and bind t" em to each other; substantially described.

2. The method eating Wood ticles, consisting in 1 ng the juices,

s to extract all i weasel servative, and then mixing With said particles a small quantity of heavy adhesive compound or preparation, the proportion of said compound heing merely large enough'to coat the particles and bind them to each other; substantially as described.

3. The method of manufacturing articles 'z from Wood particles, consisting in first eX- tracting the juices from the particles, then drying the particles to remove all moisture, then filling the open pores of the particles with a preservative, then mixing the impregnated particles with a small quantity of heavy binder to coat theparticles and bind them together, and then pressing the material into shape; substantially as de scribed.

The method of manufacturing a composition from "wood articles, consisting in first extracting the juices from the particles, then drying the particles to remove all moist are, then filling the open pores oi the par i' cles with preservative, then drying the impregnated particles, and then mixing with the impregnated particles a small quantity or hinder to completely coat the particles and bind them together; substantially as described.

7 As a new article of manufacture, partis of Wood having the sap, juices and lter extracted, the open pores of said par- 1 ich the sap has been extract- L gnated with a preservative 2: held together by a small quantity voi l T adhesive hinder, there being sufiicient r to completely coat the particles and thereof I have attired my resence of two witnesses,

January, 1911.

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